Wearables Technical Articles

This article provides a closer look at the PCB design considerations and programming of a custom capacitive touch interface device.

This article, part of AAC’s Analog Circuit Collection, presents a simple yet effective replacement for ADC-based window detection.

Highly integrated ICs such as the MAX30004 can help you to improve the performance and practicality of your wearable designs.

Researchers develop a wearable sensor for detecting important analytes in sweat for monitoring dehydration.

There are many integrated circuits that can help you to optimize the performance of battery-powered devices. In this article we’ll take a look at the MAX17055....

Low power consumption has become an important design goal in many electronic systems. This article introduces essential concepts and techniques....

Tutorial on designing a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) circuit with the ability to measure 9-axis motion, humidity, and temperature.

Embedded and wearable systems require new ideas for input controller hardware. But older software still expects a keyboard and mouse. How do we bridge the gap without having to write kernel...

Resolution and sampling rate are two important factors to consider when selecting an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In order to understand these fully, concepts such as quantisation, and...

An introduction to the SiLabs EFM8 microcontrollers and related development tools.